Example sentences of "from [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings .
2 It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath .
3 Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles .
4 AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses .
5 Using samplers , slowed-down tapes , echo-box , fuzz , wah wah , bullhorns , saws , car doors ( from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds ) , and tapes of cattle lowing , they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum , new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound .
6 Yet they equally commonly affirm the observation that by taking on additional ‘ jobs ’ from which they derive real enjoyment and satisfaction , their energy and resources seem , paradoxically , to be replenished rather than further drained .
7 The lineage of Unix System V Release comes from the SVR4.1 Enhanced Security release , from which it inherits B1/B2 security , but SVR4.2 extends the modularity of that release with the isolation of processor-specific source code modules from the main body of common code .
8 For some people this may be self-imposed ; for me , my work forms part of it — it is something which I enjoy and from which I get considerable satisfaction .
9 You will cross the Firth Viaduct from which you have fine views of the Pentland Hills .
10 An individual is a member of a community from which he obtains considerable benefits , in return he develops special skills which he applies for the benefit of the community .
11 However , it is not really necessary to understand exactly what imaginary time is — just that it is different from what we call real time .
12 He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English .
13 It is now trying to ram through retrospective legislation to undo a decision of the law lords that ought to save Britain 's building societies from what they consider double taxation .
14 Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices .
15 Quine takes his start not from the familiar case but from what he calls radical translation ( see Quine , 1960 , ch. 2 ) .
16 He used it in his study of primitive religion , and in his study of the change from what he called mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity .
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